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Foyle's War is a British detective drama television series set during and shortly after the Second World War, created by Midsomer Murders screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz and commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse ended in 2000. It began broadcasting on ITV in October 2002.
This category lists episodes of Foyle's War in order by Series, 1 referring to Series 1, and so on. Pages in category "Foyle's War episodes" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The major theme of this episode is the emerging effects of the Cold War in post-war Britain, and the commencement of the repatriation of enemy combatants from the UK. For Russian combatants – particularly for enemy sympathisers, anti-communists, and those with knowledge of atrocities – the pending deportation situation was bleak.
The two episodes for part 2 screened in Denmark on 5 and 12 September 2006, some months before their ITV debut. [citation needed] Part 1 was broadcast in the United States on PBS on Mystery! on 17 and 24 June 2007, and part 2 on 1 and 8 July 2007, as Foyle's War IV. [5] The series was added to Netflix as of April 2014. [6]
The episode mentions increased troop movements down to the south coast and that "the end of the war is in sight", indicating a pre-D Day setting.The cartography activity at fictitious Beverly Lodge (filmed at Langley Park, Slough, Berkshire) is based on the secret map-making activities undertaken at Hughenden Manor during World War II, [1] which were not known until two years before the ...
Foyle becomes aware of Strasser's war crimes in Normandy in 1944 and interviews Nelson, who tells him how Strasser gave the command to execute the U.S. Army soldiers he'd been working with, even though they had surrendered, in accordance with the conventions of war. Foyle exposes his superior's attempts to foil the Americans by faking Strasser ...
Michael Roy Kitchen (born 31 October 1948) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the ITV drama Foyle's War, which comprised eight series between 2002 and 2015.
Foyle examines Pierce's top-secret role during the war within the Special Operations Executive (SOE) after she is shot outside MI5 by a man saying "This is for Elise". Pierce survives and is visited by an ex-SOE colleague, Sir Ian Woodhead, who is the current director of MI6.